If you have family ties with anybody from Juab County, you can tell their age by their first names....I have proof.

It's not always the case, but oft  times we can determine the approximate age of a person by their first name. Several days ago, I attended a family function, attended by various people that had the names of Kallie, Hagan, Shayla, Stetson, Keltin, Mcquin, Jaskin, Jcoson, Tajia, Trayce and Tyden. Needless to say, they were all youngins.

When I grew up in Nephi, Utah, USA, we had people named Bertha, Bula, Bernice, Betsy and no they weren't sisters. We also had Bert, Burt, Burke, Bradley, Brigham, Buford, Buster, Bish, Benjamin, and Barney, and no they weren't brothers, and Barney wasn't really from Nephi, he was just a TV hero to most of us in Nephi.

As many Juab County pioneers came from England, we may always have the names of William, Edward, Elizabeth, Mary and James.

The American Indians often named their kin after something that happened on the day of birth, so they had names of Thunder Cloud; Crying Wolf, Sitting Bull or Running Bear.

Here is my proposal. Rather than take a chance with outdating your child's birth name, how about if we incorporate Juab County things with the name of the baby, kind of like what the Indians did.  Just say the first names, then fill in your last name...and you may find it catching.

Yuba
Buck
Arid
Sage
Holler
Knowles
Canyon
Redcliff
Mona
Navel
Furner
Horse
Coyote
Divide
Cedar
Juniper

Just a thought.